Why my reputation is reduced by 10 without any appropriate reason?
I didn't post any answer or question that I can expect downvotes. The reputation suddenly decrease from 643 to 633.
I didn't shutdown my laptop yesterday and had this one AU tab open (which had not reloaded). It shows my reputa...

After update of Ubuntu 16.04 it boots to kali linux and only in command line mode.
but when I login to my Ubuntu it still shows my all files so i decided to take backup I find way to transfer those file to USB but when i connect USB drive to another pc it shows files with 0kb size
the command I...

To the occasion of this question, about losing rep over deletion of this one
Rubbish does not belong on the site. After a question has been marked as unclear, off-topic or too broad, one might consider to delete the question afterwards.
However, specifically if a question was marked as a dupe...

@JacobVlijm and other users reading this : Have you seen my new answer from about two hours ago ? I don't wanna post it here (you know why), but it has some important and useful information I think ... :)

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : I tried your server version of the selectively remove kernel script, rm-kernels-server. I tried it 3 different ways: Via ssh from my working directory; Via ssh with it installed in /usr/local/bin; Via a terminal physically connected to the actual server. I always get the same error:

You can't use select as a variable name, that's already the name of a shell builtin command:

$ help select
select: select NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do COMMANDS; done
Select words from a list and execute commands.
The WORDS are expanded, generating a list of words. The
set of expanded words is printed on the standard error, each
preceded by a number. If `in WORDS' is not present, `in "$@"'
is assumed. The PS3 prompt is then displayed and a line read
from the standard input. If the line consists of the number
corresponding to one of the displayed words, then NAME is set

Change all occurrences of select to Select or whatever you like and it should be OK.

There are other questions about the XPS 15 (such as this one) but they all seem to be several years old and relate to an older XPS model. This question is specifically about the XPS 15 9560 released in 2017.
I am considering buying this laptop and I am, as always, concerned about dual boot suppo...

I know generic hardware recommendation questions are off-topic, but this is very specific and would seem to be objectively answerable. He might not find his answer here, but that's no reason to close it.

My system contains a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter which is on usb3 bus in my docking station (Dell TB16) which is attached to my laptop (Dell XPS9550) via Thunderbolt 3.
I get usb related kernel error messages when I initiate a high speed transfer (by issuing wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/zesty-desktop-amd64.iso) and the download fails.
This does not happened when the Ethernet adapter is connected to a 100Mb/s switch, but only when connected to 1000Mb/s. It also does not happened with slow traffic (e.g. web page browsing). This is not a new bug with kernel 4.10, but has been going on since at least 4.7 and maybe (probably?) since forever. I'm aware of several others with this configuration (RTL8153 on usb3 behind thunderbolt 3) that have the same issue. This bug is also not specific to Ubuntu; I also get it on Arch Linux. I've also tested and seen this bug with several different models of thunderbolt 3 docks.
Here are the releva…

Machine: Dell XPS 15 (9560) - released 2017 January
Install: disk completely erased
Ubuntu 16.04.1 installed over wireless with:
- download updates while installing ubuntu
- install third-party hardware
- full disk crypto+luks
Note 1: Installation process did not realize there exists a GTX 1050
so we are solely using Intel integrated graphics.
Note 2: Installation done not on Dell TB16 Dock to isolate wireless
problems alone first.
First Boot: update/upgrade/dist-upgrade'd after first boot and rebooted
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After testing wireless problems and being able to reproduce them, machine was rebooted to the login screen, and then plugged into a Dell TB16 dock.
1. Turn down wireless networking.
2. Turn up wired networking.
3. Browse things until this happens, after which the wired interface no longer works and can sometim…

I have two computers (let say "A" and "B") that are already pinging and sshing each other via firewire, both with static ip. Computer A is connected to the Internet and I want it to share its internet connection to computer B. I have no idea of how this can be done via firewire interface. Any ide...

@Zanna oh, by the way, "Someone in chat told me I shouldn't have done that" ... this couldn't have been me ! :) So, who was it then ? :) I remember to having had said : Out of curiosity ... hahaha ! :D

@KazWolfe Digging into the bug report it appears that the problem is related to the ASMedia controller support. Apparently works fine with the same technology on the Intel Sunrise Point-H USB controller

Hi, I'm building a DEBIAN package. I have de "DEBIAN/control" file already and the rest of my program in "usr/bin". How can I do it, to create a file in init.d? Using a script? Where do I put this script? Thanks

I wanted to switch to windows 10 since i have ubuntu and 10 on dual boot but accidentaly pressed suspend instead of shutdown. I was in a hurry and i pressed power button since i just wanted to shut it down. It turned back on and i manually turned it off. I did my thing on windows 10 and when i tr...

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : O.K. I got your selective kernel purge script, server edition, working (sort of) on a server. The issue was that the "dialog" package is installed by default on desktops but not on servers, and I did not have it installed. Servers only seem to have "whiptail" installed by default. I am now looking to into why the dialog box looks odd via an SSH connection, but fine from a physically connected terminal

If I run the command find / -name "node_modules*" I would get back results similar to:
/backup/2016-01-01/node_modules
/backup/2016-01-01/node_modules/something/node_modules
/backup/2016-01-01/node_modules/somethingelse/node_modules
...
/backup/2016-12-12/proj/node_modules
/backup/2016-12-12/pro...

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : No, it did not work. "select" works fine. I'll have to figure out how to point you to other messages I posted here during the day. Bottom line is that servers to not have "dialog" package installed by default.